Apartheid Quote by Nelson Mandela

“The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.”

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We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

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Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting…

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If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they…

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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

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As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my…

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Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary…

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“I believed that I would become a counsellor to the Thembu king,”

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What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light shine, we…

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not…

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We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:…

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“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the…

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A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we…

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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create…

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I try not to get too political. But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem, and there was lots of inequality,…

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I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was…

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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

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We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there…

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My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about…

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But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few…

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The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of…

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HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

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I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do…

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